My Favorite Quotes

Click the desired book at the top of the page, or click on a jellyfish to go to Medusozoa home.   "Dance like a jellyfish. Dance like a jellyfish." -- Cabrillo Marine Aquarium If you can't set a good example, at least be a horrible warning. -- Anon. Life is not a dress rehearsal. -- Dr. Toni Grant Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug. -- Anon. "Be Patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves" -- Rainer Maria Rilke I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. -- L. M. Montgomery Great it is to believe the dream When we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through And say at the end, "The dream was true." -- Edwin Markham "It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses." -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the English actress Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore! Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Even if it takes 10 years, I was going to get 10 years older anyway! Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -- Samuel Johnson "Things do not change; we change." --Henry David Thoreau "We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world." --The Buddha "If we all did the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." --Thomas Edison "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." --Arthur Clark "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." --Oliver Wendall Holmes "We are what we repeatedly do." --Aristotle "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance." --Bruce Barton "Take away the cause, and the effect ceases." --Miguel De Cervantes "A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary." --Seneca "We will either find a way, or make one." --Hannibal "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." --Thomas Edison "Man is born to live and not to prepare to live" --Boris Pasternak If you advance confidently toward your dreams, you will have success unknown in the common hours. -- Thoreau Go to your bosom, knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. -- Shakespeare Sell your cleverness, and purchase bewilderment. -- Francesco The fear is not that we set our goals too high and we do not reach them, but that we set them too low and we do. -- Michelangelo Faith is the song that the songbird sings before the dawn.